pain medication/reliever
noun
: a drug that decreases or removes pain
prescription pain medication/relievers
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Acknowledge that pain medication may be necessary at times, but request that there be more communication with the family before decisions are made that essentially render her uncommunicative.
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Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
Ezz told me that during the raid doctors had to perform thoracostomies, in which the chest is cut open to relieve pressure from internal injuries, without pain medication or sedatives.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Those challenges led to several dark episodes last year in which Caraveo almost took her life with a near-overdose of sleeping pills and pain medication.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
After Beom-jun leaves the hospital against medical advice, Ju-yeon uses the private detective agency to switch out Beom-jun’s pain medication for fentanyl.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
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Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
Ezz told me that during the raid doctors had to perform thoracostomies, in which the chest is cut open to relieve pressure from internal injuries, without pain medication or sedatives.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Those challenges led to several dark episodes last year in which Caraveo almost took her life with a near-overdose of sleeping pills and pain medication.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
After Beom-jun leaves the hospital against medical advice, Ju-yeon uses the private detective agency to switch out Beom-jun’s pain medication for fentanyl.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Pain medication/reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pain%20medication%2Freliever. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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